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N. Korean Guard's More Threatening Look N. Korean guards at JSA before the Cheonan crisis (top right) After the crisis (top left & bottom ) Difference: battle helmet, calluses on the knuckles of both hands, wound on the right hand near wrist

I am running for Mayor of the New Jersey Region (MidAtlantic State, Junior Statesmen of America)((JSA)) JSA is a youth political organization of which I have been involved for a few years. I thought some Freepers would be interested that a Freeper is running to partly control the largest HS student political organization in the country. Check it out at www.Rogers2006.com

THESE IS HOW OUR MILITARY WAS DECIMATED UNDER (COMMANDER IN CHIEF)CLINTON, SUPPORTED 100% BY JOHN KERRY (THESE VOTES HE DID SHOW UP FOR). THEIR TERRIBLE JUDGMENT IS WHY OUR MILITARY IS STRETCHED NOW...ALL DUE TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADERSHIP (I USE THE TERM LOOSELY). Send to all...people need to know what they're voting for. 709,000 REGULAR (ACTIVE DUTY) PERSONNEL. 293,000 RESERVE TROOPS. EIGHT STANDING ARMY DIVISIONS! 20 AIR FORCE AND NAVY AIR WINGS WITH 2,000 COMBAT AIRCRAFT 232 STRATEGIC BOMBERS. 9 STRATEGIC BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBMARINES WITH 3,114 NUCLEAR WARHEADS ON 232 MISSILES. 500 ICBMs WITH 1,950 WARHEADS. FOUR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS...

[Report by Freeper "AmericanInTokyo" from the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 31 May 2003.]This is a quick, frontline report for the readers of Free Republic, provided by "AmericanInTokyo". An investigative visit was conducted Saturday (yesterday) by myself and about 25 others to the sensitive/tense Joint Security Area (JSA) just north of Seoul, Korea, which is maintained jointly by the North Koreans and the US/ROK military at the village of Panmunjom on the Korean DMZ at the 38th Parallel.The trip was significant in view of recent escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States (and South Korea) in terms of North...

AmericanInTokyo here with a quick heads up.I am currently in the Republic of South Korea. Tomorrow (and having done this a number of times, but not for the last few years) I will 'technically enter' the so-called "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" very briefly at the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone between South and communist North Korea.I am sure a number of Freepers have also done this while in the ROK. Part of the briefing by the US military to our group will include a short visit to the military demarcation conference room. No doubt the stern,...